don t you take anything from those yankees. you hear me? it s every man s responsibility to hold on to what they got. if somebody isn t holding on to what is theirs, you just take it. her coaching is the beginning of what criminologists call violent conditioning. she said we own slaves and nobody is going to take that away from us. seeing violence as his way of life, he absorbed that attitude from her. over the next six years, the james family farm transforms into a confederate stronghold. frank and jesse are now a force that the north will have to recon with. on april 12th, 1861, the south fires on fort sumpter and the civil war begins. frank fights in the militia for
strike back against federal authority and everything they saw as being a pressure in their life. everyone on the ground, no! get down! grab the money, frank. so they robbed banks. put that money in the bag, now! come on! it is true that we are robbers. we rob only in the glare of the day and in the teeth of the multitude. we do not kill only in self-defense when they refuse to unlock when killed. dammit, cox. [ gunfire ] together, the james younger gang is a terrifying bunch, hell-bent on resurrecting the confederacy. kond kond. . .
but in his rage [ gunfire ] jesse james kills the wrong man. [ gunfire ] cold-blooded killers, frank and jesse james, start out as boys on a farm in clay county, missouri. jesse s father, robert james, is a baptist minister. robert james was selected by a group of men there who want to go out west to california. and he s the chaplain on this expedition to go out gold mining.
frank is concerned with the attention jesse ser raderratic behavior attracts in it the papers. a long time criminal bob ford is following jesse s every move. bob ford was this media saturated fan. there s no better way to get close to the object of your admiration than to join his gang. maybe in some ways become a little bit like him. that s the picture of bob ford that we have today. at this point jesse james is losing his edge. historians have proven he starts abusing an opium based pain-killer that is still legal at the time. his abuse only adds to his fanaticism and helps to trigger
whackers. jesse splits from the group. and is shot in the chest. frank is captured and surrenders. he s forced to take an oath pledging loyalty to the union. i will henceforth faith fully support and defend the constitution of the united states and the union of the state thereunder. jesse is a prisoner of war and must surrender before his wounds are treated. but he has no intention of giving up. even if the confederacy is defeated. for jesse james, this is not an end of his conflict. this is the end of someone else s conflict, not jesse james conflict, not frank